After driving for about half an hour, Zheng Xiaoguang and her friends finally reached their destination, the Green Lake Park. The Green Lake was a man-made lake, but as it covered a large area, the scenery of the park was great. Many couples would come to this park to take pre-wedding photos.

The moment they had just parked their car, a man ran to negotiate with them. “Excuse me, we’re going to take pre-wedding photos here. Can you go to another place…”

The man stuttered when he saw the opened trunk of their car. He could tell that they planned to have a picnic here.

“Alright, we’ll leave,” Tong Xiangyang graciously agreed. As such, they got into the car and drove away.

Yang Sisi sighed. “Sigh, my dear Xiaoguang. When will you come here to take pre-wedding photos?”

“Pre-wedding photos…” Zheng Xiaoguang somehow thought of Bluegreen-Clad. “But I’ve blocked Bluegreen-Clad. I even don’t know whether he tried to contact me. Even if he did, it would not change anything. I just don’t want to meet Su Han again.”

“I’ll shoot my pre-wedding photos someday,” Zheng Xiaoguang replied flatly without expecting anything. She wondered, “Maybe someday, I’ll compromise and marry someone who is ‘suitable’ for me.”

“Sign, I shouldn’t expect too much from you. I think Xiangyang looks more promising than you.” Yang Sisi deliberately said this to change the topic. She asked Tong Xiangyang, “What kind of girl do you like, Xiangyang?”

Tong Xiangyang found another picnic site and parked the car while saying, “I don’t really have too many requirements. I just want to find a girl who shares a common interest with me.”

“Then what’s your interest? Maybe Xiaoguang shares a common interest with you,” Yang Sisi asked while exchanging a look with Zheng Xiaoguang.

Zheng Xiaoguang glanced at the rearview mirror of the car and suspected that Tong Xiangyang saw what they had done just now. She felt embarrassed and looked out of the window, while pretending not to hear a thing.

Upon seeing that, Yang Sisi had no choice but to hold Zheng Xiaoguang’s hand and said, “Alright, let’s get out of the car and help them.”

Zheng Xiaoguang felt much relieved upon hearing that and hurriedly got out of the car together with Yang Sisi. They went to help Yang Sisi’s husband Zhang Jing taking things out of the trunk.

After a while, Tong Xiangyang came to find them and said, “You girls just take the table cloth and the food out of the trunk. I’ll help Zhang Jing carry the grills.”

Yang Sisi said smilingly, “Xiangyang is such a gentleman. Women significantly outnumbered men in our company, and the guys in our company are not as nice as Xiangyang. As such, we girls always do everything by ourselves when we’re moving office. Isn’t it, Xiaoguang?”

As Yang Sisi kept praising Tong Xiangyang all the time, Zheng Xiaoguang felt somewhat helpless. She nodded and replied, “Uhm, But I think that’s alright. Now that men and women are equal, women can rely on themselves and don’t need to bother the guys.”

By saying this, she implied that she really did not need a guy now and wanted Yang Sisi to stop pushing her.

Upon hearing that, Yang Sisi rolled her eyes at Zheng Xiaoguang to show her dissatisfaction.

When Zhang Jing and Tong Xiangyang were busy carrying and setting up the grills and making fire, Yang Sisi looked at them and asked Zheng Xiaoguang, “Isn’t it good to have a guy to help you? Look at them. If we came here by ourselves and wanted to have a barbecue, we would have to go to a restaurant.”

“What? Why does she bring this up again? Well, I don’t mind having a barbecue at a restaurant.” When Zheng Xiaoguang was about to voice her thought, she saw Yang Sisi staring at her and immediately swallowed the words back.

“Well, I’ll go to make some sausage skewers,” Zheng Xiaoguang said. She decided to avoid talking with Yang Sisi by getting herself busy.

A moment later, Tong Xiangyang made fire and Zhang Jing went back to take the barbecue net and clips left in the car. Yang Sisi said to Tong Xiangyang, “Xiaoguang is really a nice and considerate girl. Do you think so, Xiangyang?”

Zheng Xiaoguang, who was threading sausage onto bamboo skewers just now, had goose bumps all over her body upon hearing that.

Tong Xiangyang did not seem to feel awkward at all. He echoed, “Hehe, Miss Zheng is indeed a nice and considerate girl.”

Fortunately, Zhang Jing quickly came back, and they started their barbecue. To prevent Yang Sisi from talking too much, Zheng Xiaoguang kept delivering her all kinds of delicious food.

Yang Sisi was a smart girl and quickly realized what Zheng Xiaoguang was doing. She grabbed Zheng Xiaoguang’s hand and said, “Don’t serve me all the time, Xiaoguang. Don’t you need to thank Xiangyang? He has been roasting the meat for us all this while.”

Zheng Xiaoguang felt hesitant and looked down at her own chopsticks. When she was about to discuss “oral bacteria” with Yang Sisi, Tong Xiangyang politely rejected Yang Sisi’s proposal. “No, thanks. Just help yourself. I can take care of myself.”

Yang Sisi was persistent and quickly added, “Well, it’s rare for us to come out together. How about we take a photo together? Come on, Xiaoguang. Stand beside Xiangyang. I’ll take a photo of you, and you can post it on your WeChat Moments.”

“No, thanks.” Zheng Xiaoguang hurriedly shook her head and said. “The other may misunderstand it.”

Yang Sisi glared at Zheng Xiaoguang in a threatening way and urged. “Go, quickly!”

To her surprise, Tong Xiangyang interjected, “Do you want to post a photo on your Moments? I’ll take a picture of you and Zhang Jing.” He put down the clip and took out his cellphone as he said, “Come here, Zhang Jing. Sit together with your wife. I’ll take a picture of you and then sent it to you on WeChat.”

Zheng Xiaoguang heaved a long sigh of relief and thought, “Fortunately, Tong Xiangyang is not interested in me. And he’s really considerate.” She put some roasted sausages and needle mushroom on Tong Xiangyang’s plate to show her gratitude for him.

Upon seeing that, Yang Sisi was excited, as she thought that Zheng Xiaoguang did this to show affection to Tong Xiangyang. She hurriedly urged him. “Stop roasting the meat, Xiangyang. Come here to eat first.”

“Okay,” Tong Xiangyang came up to them with a smile. To their surprise, he just drank some mineral water and did not touch the food that Zheng Xiaoguang gave him.

“Eat, quickly.” Yang Sisi urged.

Tong Xiangyang looked hesitant and said embarrassedly, “In fact, I don’t like to eat roasted things…”

“This is really awkward,” thought Zheng Xiaoguang. “Lucky me, if I really liked this guy, I would be extremely disappointed now.”

Upon noticing that Zheng Xiaoguang and Tong Xiangyang did not seem to like each other very much, Yang Sisi felt frustrated. She exchanged a look with Zhang Jing, and Zhang Jing immediately realized what she wanted. He said, “How about we play badminton together after the picnic?”

He thought that they would get to know more about each other by participating in this kind of interactive activity. To his surprise, both of them refused to play badminton together.

Zheng Xiaoguang said, “Uhm, I don’t know how to play badminton.”

Tong Xiangyang said, “Oh, I forget to bring my badminton racket out today.”

Zhang Jing was surprised and wondered, “Is Tong Xiangyang serious? I remember that he takes a badminton racket with him every day. We often play badminton together during the lunch breaks at our company. Does he really forget to take it out today? Or, does he just want to use this as an excuse to turn me down?” Zhang Jing gave his wife an I-cannot-do-anything-about-it look.

Yang Sisi twitched her mouth and sighed inwardly, “These two people really deserve to be single dogs.” (“Single dog” is a Chinese Internet slang used to describe a single person.)